On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:13:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24:55AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:39:23AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > > I suggest a list of supported protocols, instead of a min/max, because
> > > > ONF recently standardized a way to negotiate a set of protocols rather
> > > > than a range. Do you have access to the OpenFlow 1.3.1 standard? (It
> > > > doesn't seem to be on the opennetworking.org website yet.) It is in
> > > > there.
> > >
> > > Simon, are you working on the 1.3.1 version negotiation protocol or do
> > > you plan to work on it? If not, let me know: I may take the time to
> > > implement this myself.
> >
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > sorry for not replying earlier. I have done some work in this area
> > but I am not comfortable with publishing it as the Open Flow 1.3.1 spec
> > has not been published yet.
>
> The 1.3.1 spec has been approved by the ONF board. We've been told in
> the past that it's fine to publish implementations of unpublished
> standards. In fact, this will be *required* for 1.4: only features that
> have been implemented in some open source switch will be accepted for
> 1.4. So I don't think that 1.3.1 not being published is a good reason
> not to send out a patch series.
Thanks, very good to know.
To be clear, I have a series that doesn't use Open Flow 1.3.1 version
negotiation protocol but has been designed to allow it to be easily added.
And I have done some preparatory work on the Hello extension described in
Open Flow 1.3.1. So from here I see myself having two choices:
1. Post the series as is (very soon)
- Actually its already in
git://github.com/horms/openvswitch.git devel/of1.2-runtime-switch2
but I am waiting to verify the presence or absence of a bug
relating to selection of flow formats.
2. Add Open Flow 1.3.1 version negotiation and then post (a bit later)
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